Thinking of Mother's

Somewhere, I have packed away a books I bought my mother years ago. I know she enjoyed filling in the various blanks with the help of the prompts on all the pages for each of my older sons. One of the reasons I haven't given them to the boys although they are all in their 20's is because of our youngest son who is only 9 years old now. He wasn't even w twinkle in his father's eye when my mother passed away. I don't have a book for him from her, I've thought of copying several pagers from each book for him or even all the books but, they were done specifically for each of the older boys.
Well, since my oldest grandchild was born, I've thought of finding a book like my mother's to fill out. I've finally found something! It's from Knowledge Box Central, called "Grandmother's Virtues Lapbook" for a really great price and I'm actually looking forward to making one for each of them. I also plan on sending a copy to his adopted grandmother although I'm not sure she'll be able to really fill in all the booklets since she's not really related to us but I'm sure I can do something. What I'm also planning to do is see if I can use it with the books for my older boys to make one for our youngest about my mother. Once I get it done, I'll post about it with pictures to show my finished product! I think I should be able to work with it to make a really special gift for him with this great lapbook. After all, if I can't come up with information to fill it out, I won't have to leave blank booklets. I can just leave that booklet out! I love it for that reason since there must be at least one page in each one of the books my mother never filled out! lol At least the ones I put together will all be filled out.

Learning Tree Games is now a business! We have loaded two games, one of them has two versions. You can get it in either a file folder game or a board game. We'll see which version people prefer but since the file folder game is cheaper, that may be the one! I know our son likes playing games and doesn't prefer one over the other as long as it's a game.
We've also loaded all four of our decks that can be used with The Great Space Race. Depending on whether people want to work on addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division there is a deck for their needs. I also was able to figure out an additional mini game to go along with all the decks except the division deck. I hope to eventually figure out a game to go with it too.
Now, we are working on two more game boards to more apply to the interests of the children than to create more games. One will be "Princess" themed and the other will be "dinosaur" themed but basically the same game as our Great Space Race. We are also working on several other items at this time though. We are working on another deck to go with the Space Race but, it's going to be Space or Solar System themed. We are also working on something to learn about Native Americans. We are also working on a game to help children work on spelling words. Lastly, I have an idea for a game to learn about the history of the Latter Saint Church. These items are listed in the order they should be completed.
What would be nice is to hear from customers about games that would help them with their children. Maybe a topic or subject they are studying and can't find something to help them teach that subject or topic to their children. At this point, we've been creating things we can use with our sons but, there are bound to be items like them out there already. I haven't found some of them but, there's bound to be items out there.


One thing we are trying to do is make our games affordable to people since one thing we have found while looking for something we could use to homeschool our sons is that almost everything out there we find is just soooo expensive!

Our New Business!

Well, we have decided to name our business Learning Tree Games.
We named ourselves that because we want to try to make most of our products games. At least I've found that our son learns better when what he's learning about has a game of some sort to suppliment his other learning. We have an idea for the logo, my partner is working on it right now.
We have gotten back the answers from our testers, I've made some changes to the directions on how to play it. Now, as soon as the logo is finished, we'll be ready to send the first game to Currclick. Here's what the finished game board looks like. Now, I'm making some cards to go with it that will cover harder math problems than 6+6 or 6x6. I also want to make some cards that will cover questions about the solar system too.

I need to get back to our testers to see if they are ready to tell us what they think of the other game. We'll be ready to sell it soon too.

I have so many ideas running around in my head! I need to write them all down and deal with them, one at a time. So, if you are a Currclick customer you might want to keep an eye out for a new business called Learning Tree Games!

A Bussines Being Born?

Well, it's been a while since I've posted, frankly I'm busy doing so many other things that I just don't have time. Then too, I just plain forget to post sometimes too.

Anyway, what's the business going to be about? A friend of mine and I want to try design, make, and sell learning games. How did we come up with the idea? It started a few months ago when our son was having problems understanding how to do multiplication. After trying several ways to teach him how to multiply, he finally got it! So, now I needed to come up with a way for him to practice his multiplication skills. How did I do it? I created a game board. If you know our son, you know his interest in dinosaurs, so I made a game board with a dinosaur theme.

I met my friend through the internet, she had contacted me, asking me for help and advice about homeschoooling. Her husband was resistant about her homeschooling her son but, he finally let her start and from what I understand, she and her son are doing well. When I sent her a picture of the game board I had made for Martin, she liked it so much that she suggested that we try making and selling them. Once we had decided to start, it was slow starting.

I think we have split up our business pretty evenly, so far I've come up with the basic idea for each of the game boards, then she does the graphics, I write the directions for putting the game boards together and how to play the game. We have made two game boards so far, a space themed game board and a letter blending game. We have sent them out to our game testers a couple weeks ago and now, we are anxiously waiting for them to return their opinions of them!

So, now we're almost ready to start selling our game boards. We've decided the name of our company is going to be Learning Tree Games and to start, we're going to sell our games only through Currclick.com

So, wish us luck!

Remembering 9/11: The Pentagon

O n 9 / 1 1, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into The Pentagon at 9:40 am. Aboard the plane are Fifty-three passengers, six crew members, and five hijackers.
In 2008, The Pentagon had a temporary memorial called the Field of Flags called the Healing Field that consisted of 3,000 American Flags. Now, there are several permanent memorials. One is a chapel inside The Pentagon where the plane crashed into it. Another is a memorial inside The Pentagon. There is also a public memorial outside, on the grounds of The Pentagon where the plane crashed into the building. It consists of a stream of water and illuminated benches. Each bench has the name of one of the victims that perished at The Pentagon. It is a quiet area that allows visitors a peaceful place to contemplate.

Lest We Forget!

9/11 First Responders

I have been doing a lot of reading and listening about 9/11 to prepare to teach our son about 9/11. After all, it is the 10th anniversary of the event. I have found an issue that is really bothering me about what I have read. What is the issue? The first responders to The World Trade Center. From what I understand, there are a lot of them that are being diagnosed with some form or another of cancer. Now, that's pretty bad but, what's even worse is that their health care is supposedly not being taken care of! I know I read about one of the men who came down with mouth cancer that had grown down one side of his neck and into other areas of his body. When he asked for health care, from what I understand, he was told it was because of the work he did on 9/11. They know this because a lot of them are being diagnosed. He has had to pay for a majority of his health care from out of his own pocket! I think this is a horrible shame! I wish I knew something to do to help but, besides sending an email to the president is about the only thing I can think of besides sending an email to my Senator. So, I was thinking that if others would do the same, wanting these brave men and women to have their health taken care of.

Pictures of 9/11

I would like to post at least some of the pictures that I have downloaded from the internet. I don't know, there are probably millions out there but, here are the ones I found so far. The reason I'm doing this is because I had to look here and there to find them all so, I'm hoping this will help someone, somewhere. I have a couple in mind that I remember seeing but haven't found. If I do, I'll add them when I do found them. So, here they are: